Amazon Employees React Negatively to New Five Day Return to Office Mandate

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Amy Larsen DeCarlo – Principal Analyst, Security and Data Center Services
  • A survey of 2,585 Amazon staffers conducted by Blind, an anonymous social media platform, reported that 91% are dissatisfied with the new five-day in-office policy.
  • Separate Blind research involving employees from multiple companies found 65% are anxious about return to office (RTO) orders.

If there was any upside to the 2020 COVID 19-driven lockdown, the overnight move to remote work granted many corporate employees a new work from home perk. The move eliminated difficult and often costly commutes. Working from home also gave families flexibility to lessen the load in areas like childcare and logistics. But the biggest benefit of working from home might be the gift of time. Many enterprises retained at least hybrid working operations, requiring staff to come in on a limited basis. But now, more than four years after lockdown began, more corporations are calling employees back in the office for the full five days.

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